CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Ian Aitken
• Robert Alter
• Susan Brigden
• David Bromwich
• Marilyn Butler
• Paul Delany
• Alistair Elliot
• Seamus Heaney
• Tony Honoré
• Frank Kermode
• Tom Leonard
• Naomi Lewis
• Philip Purser
• Craig Raine
• Claude Rawson
• John Sutherland
• Julian Symons
• Jeremy Treglown
• Jenny Turner

Contents

• John Sutherland

  • Decline of Donnish Dominion by A.H. Halsey
  • Millikan’s School: A History of the California Institute of Technology by Judith Goodstein

• Letters
  Robert Crawford, Diana Hendry, John Webb, Leonard Jackson, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Keith Flett

• Tony Honoré

  • Sex and Reason by Richard Posner

• Frank Kermode

  • Moral Literacy: Or how to do the right thing by Colin McGinn
  • The Space Trap by Colin McGinn

• Susan Brigden

  • Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the 17th Century by David Underdown

• Jenny Turner

  • Curriculum Vitae by Muriel Spark

• Naomi Lewis
  Dorian’s Castle

• Claude Rawson

  • The Intelligencer by Jonathan Swift and Thomas Sheridan, edited by James Woolley
  • Jonathan Swift: A Literary Life by Joseph McMinn

• Marilyn Butler

  • The Lyrical Ballads: Longman Annotated Texts edited by Michael Mason
  • Strange Power of Speech: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Literary Possession by Susan Eilenberg
  • The Politics of Nature: Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries by Nicholas Roe

• Tom Leonard
  Poem: ‘poem’

• David Bromwich

  • Mary and Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft, Matilda by Mary Shelley edited by Janet Todd
  • Lady Sophia Sternheim by Sophie von La Roche, edited by James Lynn

• Craig Raine
  Kipling and Modernism

• Seamus Heaney
  Poem: ‘An Invocation’

• Alistair Elliot
  Poem: ‘Highland Hospitality’

• Jeremy Treglown

  • Writers on World War Two: An Anthology edited by Mordecai Richler
  • Legacies and Ambiguities: Post-war Fiction and Culture in West Germany and Japan edited by Ernestine Schlant and Thomas Rimer

• Julian Symons

  • A Choice of Murder by Peter Vansittart
  • Portrait of the Artist’s Wife by Barbara Anderson
  • Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman
  • Double Down by Tom Kakonis

• Robert Alter

  • Life with a Star by Jiri Weil, translated by Rita Klimova and Roslyn Schloss
  • Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil, translated by Marie Winn

• Ian Aitken
  Diary

• Philip Purser

  • Fatherland by Robert Harris

• Paul Delany

  • Murther and Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies